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That’s my year made.<\/p>\n

From the Online OED:<\/a><\/p>\n

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phaser<\/span>, n.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

2.<\/strong><\/span> Science Fiction<\/em>. A weapon producing destructive laser or similar beams (of variable phase); spec.<\/em> a (usually hand-held) device whose output can be varied to produce different effects on a target (as stunning, annihilation, etc.). Also in extended use and in figurative context.First used in the U.S. television series Star Trek<\/em>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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1966\u00a0\u00a0 G. Roddenberry<\/span> Memo<\/em> 26 Apr. in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of \u2018Star Trek\u2019<\/a><\/em> iii.<\/span> i. 272<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Reference the mating of various components of the phaser weapons..when the hand phaser is mated to the pistol, they should appear as one weapon<\/em>.<\/div>\n

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1967\u00a0\u00a0 Pop. Sci.<\/a><\/em> Dec. 73\/2<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The main weaponry of the Enterprise is its banks of \u2018ship’s phasers\u2019,\u2014artillery-size versions of the hand phasers and phaser pistols carried by the crew. These weapons are, of course, refinements of today’s familiar lasers.<\/div>\n

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1978\u00a0\u00a0 D. Bloodworth<\/span> Crosstalk<\/a><\/em> xxxiii. 256<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The USAAF had brought down the first unmanned plane with a laser, and..had..been thinking in terms of light, chemically-operated versions that could be phased together… \u2018Phasers?\u2019 \u2018Phasers. Right.\u2019<\/div>\n

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1984\u00a0\u00a0 D. Duane<\/span> My Enemy, my Ally<\/a><\/em> vi. 85<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Chekov, arm photon torpedoes, prepare to lock phasers on for firing.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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1995\u00a0\u00a0 THIS Mag.<\/a><\/em> July 21\/2<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 His oddly reserved nature stands out… Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill. In print and in person, he usually gives a nod to his opponents before letting fly.<\/div>\n
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2000\u00a0\u00a0 Personal Computer World<\/a><\/em> Dec. 481\/2<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The phaser rifle..easily vaporises most opponents in a spectacular orange echoey screaming fashion with a single shot.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
…I get quoted often enough. (Normally in connection with potato chips<\/a>.) But to be cited in the single reference that I use more than any other?*<\/div>\n
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Yeah.<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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*And to find out about it on International Literacy Day? There’s a certain pleasure in that too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s my year made. From the Online OED: phaser, n. 2. Science Fiction. 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